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Marriage Encounter occurs as weekend program designed to help married couples improve their marriage and solve problems before it escalate into divorce. the Worldwide Marriage Encounter organization operate a mission of renewal in the Catholic church & tries to vary the world by assisting couples and priests to develop fully intimate & responsible relationships. a farther attraction of the program, especially for immature couples, is the community that is created by owning more married couples on top the course of the weekend.

When a program began in a Catholic church, now the organization holds similar weekends for various Protestant denominations as well. Similar softwcome online, known as Engaged Encounter & Pre-Cana Encounter, are held for couples shopping for marriage.

Above the course of the weekend, Marriage Encounter seeks to instill in the couples a pattern of communication that will help the babies for their entire married life. At a equivalent period, a couples come encouraged to include God in their life together. Organizers say that the Marriage Encounter is non the retreat, marriage clinic, group sensitivity step by step videos, or even the substitute for counseling, though elements of these come involved in the program.

Priests & religious are also encouraged to attend a sessions. A equivalent lesson of love, commitment and communication that facilitate married couples stay together may be applied per priest or even even even theologiser to his or her parish or community.

Marriage encounter weekends come processed step by step:

  • Developing to understand oneself
  • Viewing life as a couple
  • Shopping for communities & a church

    A basis one weekends (which are then independent aged, formation, & finances) is the Worldwide Marriage Encounter movement promoted by Fr. Chuck Gallagher SJ, the Jesuit priest active in the Christian Personal Movement.

  • Marriage Encounter Foundation of the Philippines
    Offers history, goals, mission and weekend information.

    International Lutheran Marriage Encounter
    Information and description of encounter weekends, plus resources and links for couples.

    National Marriage Encounter
    Judeo/Christian ministry and support group helping to make good marriages better. Includes program information.

    Catholic Engaged Encounter
    Provides marital preparation for couples including non Catholics.

    Encounters
    Listing of informational links about marriage encounter, engaged encounter, from About.com.

    Southern Illinois Marriage Encounter
    Dates and contacts for regional encounters.

    Catholic Worldwide Marriage Encounter Web Sites
    From the WWME home page, a detailed list of encounter sites in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. Not all sites are in English.

    Episcopal Marriage Encounter
    Information and lists of Episcopal church encounters around the country.

    Catholic Engaged Encounter
    Providing marriage preparation primarily for couples who are planning to marry in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

    Catholic Engaged Encounter of Sacramento
    A marriage preparation program available to couples being married in the Catholic Church.


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